It’s important to remember: 1. This was a mutual aid response 2. I was the third department to arrive on scene. There were 4 in total. 3. This is the reality of what rural firefighting looks like. More time is spent behind the windshield than you spent behind the keyboard watching this video before trolling in the comments. 4. City firefighting is way different than rural firefighting. Your next due engine might be 10 minutes, if not more, away. Especially if they’re on another call. 5. And **most importantly**: this video is 11:30 minutes of driving and a minute of me walking in. Thanks for watching.
Wow... tough crowd in here. Not every response video is going to be full of thrills, especially in a rural area. This is a great example of a few things... digesting radio traffic and appreciating everything that is happening before arrival, seeing a department actually use due regard at red lights, and just plain acknowledging that in a vast majority of the country your closest fire response isn't staffed full-time and right around the corner.
Allow me to defend the person posting this video. This is the first time I have seen video from this person. This run takes place in a rural area. Likely a volunteer department or very low number of paid staff. This is an early morning response based on sun angle and likely a Sunday based on traffic. The video is from a rig with only 1 person in it. The rig looks to be a city truck, not powerful not fast. The driver ran radios, figure out how to get to the fire without help and had to clear traffic along with planning for the poor performance that truck offers. Not an easy thing to do. This video offers examples of sound judgment dealing with traffic control devices, other traffic, conflicting traffic and handling of large fire apparatus. Not everything is exciting, this is an example of good emergency response driving. Pursuit driving is more exciting but not part of this channel.
Let me put in my 2cents. I'm familiar with this area having spent a lot of time there. There is a lot of territory to cover. Many stations in the volunteer system don't allow for trucks to leave the station with less than three members on board. Some, as in this case, do. There are stations in the state I live in that have long runs. The volunteer fire service has a lot going against it. The two top issues are finance and manning. Counties here get funding from county fire tax. That tax is based on property values. Most stations have very good equipment and trained personnel. But with all of that, if you don't have the manning, that equipment is useless. People, especially younger folks, don't want to be a volunteer firefighter. The bottom line is, if you're not familiar with volunteer fire departments, keep your comments to yourselves. I spent nearly 25 years in the volunteer fire service as a firefighter/EMTI.
I know you're not taking your time responding to this call. But man, it seems like forever. I thought i was watching a little match box fire truck. How in the hell do you handle all the adrenalin racing through your bodies? Respect to each and everyone one of you. I couldn't do it. * I'm very thankful for all the 1st responders in this country. I relied on your services twice w/in a 24 hour time period. Son clld the 1st time n the early aftrn on 11/18. We all hd covid. My son ws taking hs dad to the er (dehydration). His dad fell n the garage & brk opn the bck of hs head. FD ws clld. FD bandaged up hs head & tk hm 2 the er. He rcvd 8 staples & fluid as well. Then n the early mring hours on 11/19. I got up & passed out. I ws on the fl 4 3 hours be4 some1 noticed. I ws out. Son clld FD again. Thy tk me to the er. I hd covid. They sd i hd a blood clot. Which caused me 2 pass out. On my wy down my last thght i remembered ws this is not good. I fell right on my knees. Fractured my right knee. Ws n hosp for 7 days. When I came too & ws tld the FD ws clld again. I thght oh lord, pls don't let it b the same FM that were at my house abt 14 hours be4. I'm on the bthrm fl, in pain, dehydrated bging the gd lord 2 nt let it b the sm guys frm ystrdy. As thy work 24 hr shifts. I dn't knw if it ws the same crew or not. At some point you just don't care. You just want help. I am very grateful to the Tempe fire dept. They are among the very best. Sorry for the long post.
That’s the perks of rural firefighting. I was running 3rd due into the fire. There were 4 different departments on scene. First truck was on scene in about 8 minutes.
I am a big city cop, my backup is 1-2 mins away and fire 3-4 mins. I live rural so I understand. You did a good job. Outcome of this run sucks, we know that is possible when we take the job.
Even in England we have rural areas that have a response time of 30 minutes +, you can't have a station if you don't have the population to support it, on the + side if it's a medical and no ambulance is nearby you can send the doctors and critical care paramedics on helimed to deal with until the land ambulance arrives
Problem is in rural departments, who's going to man those stations? You could have millions more stations with millions of dollars invested, but then what? That equipment sits there for the off chance someone who is volunteer responds and pulls those trucks out.
Took pretty much the whole video to see the arrival on scene. Not to be crass considering what happened but i would have liked to have been able to see the video from arrival on.
That’s definitely something I’ll take into consideration.. I’m trying to focus on the responses mainly, and possibly introducing some on scene time but also balancing with not making the videos too long and also being careful with how much of the scene and patient property I post. Thanks for the feedback.
@@NoFloFireI don’t obviously run in trucks but what I do with my videos, if you were to look at my playlists, have response videos and on scene, so you could maybe for your case break each clip up into response and on scene for those audiences who want to see the respective clips and then post a full video to show the whole thing for those like me who want to see all of it.
Personally I think by the time this guy got there he's a little late for the party I wouldn't have bothered air packing up because I would figure everybody else has already taken care of what needed to be done. I'm surprised somebody didn't have him disregard the call and go back to station as far away as he was unless this was a mutual aid response and they were calling for backup.
OK Here's a thought. You don't need a headline that says "excitement" like rescue etc. when the video about to watched is 11:30 of firetruck driving. You got on scene after the victim was rescued and thank goodness you didn't show him. But if you're trying to create content quit the drive time and get to the point. Trying for you tube clicks is not a good idea as most people who watched this won't watch anything of yours again. I know you said third due. So in truth the first due video is the one that had the story you were trying to post. Thanks for being a good fireman but try to think about the content.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree to a certain extent with what you’re saying however the main purpose of my page is the response TO the incidents.. due to patient privacy, department SOPs and personal ethics I try to limit how much of the actual scenes I show.. we’re a busy area and I have a LOT of videos I’m working on eventually I’ll have more well rounded content.. but at the end of the day, the title is exactly as it states. The notes in the video and the description states exactly what was happening. There WAS a rescue made that was heard on the radio and I WAS the third due engine. These are the realities of what it’s like when you just can’t get there fast enough.
The point I was trying to make was the relationship between low taxation and diminished services. But since you bring up the retention issue, which is, unfortunately, a by-product of the increased pressure on personal time in today's society, coupled with greatly increased toxic exposure in today's fire scenarios. I live 400 miles from NYC, and could not even dream of their resource level in my career as a professional (IAFF L-191), but the solution to manpower issues, in part, is to fund the position, a function of taxation, a dirty word in some states. BTW, the prod was to 'ol Rick Santorum, not whoever Rod was, my bad. You are also right that nobody fights fire like FDNY, its totally nuts.
I live in rural ny… it’s worse here….we all make choices….. maybe if the state workers didn’t have such a pathetic racket with cradle to grave benefits after 20 years thanks to people like me working for 50 years well into my 70’s… and still paying insane state taxes to keep up the criminal system
Why in the world would you show one of these videos. Show a 8 minute video of you driving to fire. I've been a fireman for 15 years I can't understand. Everyone knows we drive the fire trucks to the scene they get that part of it. It is stupid and ruins it
Because the most important element of firefighting is communication? It's a great display of what good comms provides. Firefighters always over-look good, valuable communication and just assume "tactics" is what's going to stop a fire. No, providing Intel, deciding to trigger another alarm, advising responding units what they see, etc. I've seen departments that provide no information. So when other responders get there, they find out its a working fire with victims and we are now caught flat-footed, attempting to catchup.
That is simply not true. It could be a ventilation-limited fire, there could be viable victims in the structure, there could be exposures in need of protection, etc. and yes, this is the reality of rural/volunteer departments.
It’s important to remember:
1. This was a mutual aid response
2. I was the third department to arrive on scene. There were 4 in total.
3. This is the reality of what rural firefighting looks like. More time is spent behind the windshield than you spent behind the keyboard watching this video before trolling in the comments.
4. City firefighting is way different than rural firefighting. Your next due engine might be 10 minutes, if not more, away. Especially if they’re on another call.
5. And **most importantly**: this video is 11:30 minutes of driving and a minute of me walking in.
Thanks for watching.
I don’t know where this takes place but that was a long drive. Wow 😮.
After 4mins, I figured a mutual aid, but damn! 11:30 of windshield time is a crazy 3rd box! Feel for you brothers, thats an eternity for some help
It shows we don’t give up there’s a job and we follow it thru🙏🏼 to all those who do it ! Ret 37+years. 👨🏻🚒🇺🇸
Wow... tough crowd in here. Not every response video is going to be full of thrills, especially in a rural area. This is a great example of a few things... digesting radio traffic and appreciating everything that is happening before arrival, seeing a department actually use due regard at red lights, and just plain acknowledging that in a vast majority of the country your closest fire response isn't staffed full-time and right around the corner.
Allow me to defend the person posting this video. This is the first time I have seen video from this person.
This run takes place in a rural area. Likely a volunteer department or very low number of paid staff.
This is an early morning response based on sun angle and likely a Sunday based on traffic.
The video is from a rig with only 1 person in it. The rig looks to be a city truck, not powerful not fast. The driver ran radios, figure out how to get to the fire without help and had to clear traffic along with planning for the poor performance that truck offers. Not an easy thing to do.
This video offers examples of sound judgment dealing with traffic control devices, other traffic, conflicting traffic and handling of large fire apparatus. Not everything is exciting, this is an example of good emergency response driving. Pursuit driving is more exciting but not part of this channel.
Let me put in my 2cents. I'm familiar with this area having spent a lot of time there. There is a lot of territory to cover. Many stations in the volunteer system don't allow for trucks to leave the station with less than three members on board. Some, as in this case, do. There are stations in the state I live in that have long runs. The volunteer fire service has a lot going against it. The two top issues are finance and manning. Counties here get funding from county fire tax. That tax is based on property values. Most stations have very good equipment and trained personnel. But with all of that, if you don't have the manning, that equipment is useless. People, especially younger folks, don't want to be a volunteer firefighter. The bottom line is, if you're not familiar with volunteer fire departments, keep your comments to yourselves. I spent nearly 25 years in the volunteer fire service as a firefighter/EMTI.
There is a station in West Virginia that burned down, it’s has been years now, they still don’t have a house rebuilt.
They didn't have insurance? @@Sea-cucumber1151
I’ll say you’re partially correct. None of the volunteer departments in this county have a minimum staffing rule.
Awesome work by the Members! Radio traffic on large incidents can be rough at times when things go fatal!
I know you're not taking your time responding to this call. But man, it seems like forever. I thought i was watching a little match box fire truck. How in the hell do you handle all the adrenalin racing through your bodies? Respect to each and everyone one of you. I couldn't do it.
*
I'm very thankful for all the 1st responders in this country. I relied on your services twice w/in a 24 hour time period. Son clld the 1st time n the early aftrn on 11/18. We all hd covid. My son ws taking hs dad to the er (dehydration). His dad fell n the garage & brk opn the bck of hs head. FD ws clld. FD bandaged up hs head & tk hm 2 the er. He rcvd 8 staples & fluid as well. Then n the early mring hours on 11/19. I got up & passed out. I ws on the fl 4 3 hours be4 some1 noticed. I ws out. Son clld FD again. Thy tk me to the er. I hd covid. They sd i hd a blood clot. Which caused me 2 pass out. On my wy down my last thght i remembered ws this is not good. I fell right on my knees. Fractured my right knee. Ws n hosp for 7 days. When I came too & ws tld the FD ws clld again. I thght oh lord, pls don't let it b the same FM that were at my house abt 14 hours be4. I'm on the bthrm fl, in pain, dehydrated bging the gd lord 2 nt let it b the sm guys frm ystrdy. As thy work 24 hr shifts. I dn't knw if it ws the same crew or not. At some point you just don't care. You just want help. I am very grateful to the Tempe fire dept. They are among the very best. Sorry for the long post.
Where was this fire located at. ?
Question: Your BA's do not have their own seatbelts while in the seat backs?
Kaum Verkehr, ist das immer so? Auf jeden Fall eine zügige Anfahrt möglich, super!!!
Someone needs to tell these people posting these response videos that no one really wants to see 11 minutes of them responding to the fires We get it.
Eau Contraire!
Where was this in FL?
That was a long run. Your rural fire district must cover a large area.
That’s the perks of rural firefighting. I was running 3rd due into the fire. There were 4 different departments on scene. First truck was on scene in about 8 minutes.
I am a big city cop, my backup is 1-2 mins away and fire 3-4 mins. I live rural so I understand.
You did a good job.
Outcome of this run sucks, we know that is possible when we take the job.
In my area in West Virginia it's 100% volunteer and mutual aid is 30 minutes away the closest
Even in England we have rural areas that have a response time of 30 minutes +, you can't have a station if you don't have the population to support it, on the + side if it's a medical and no ambulance is nearby you can send the doctors and critical care paramedics on helimed to deal with until the land ambulance arrives
Fire departments should always be built within a five mile distant of residential areas
Problem is in rural departments, who's going to man those stations? You could have millions more stations with millions of dollars invested, but then what? That equipment sits there for the off chance someone who is volunteer responds and pulls those trucks out.
Looks like one of these first responder per state.!
Took pretty much the whole video to see the arrival on scene. Not to be crass considering what happened but i would have liked to have been able to see the video from arrival on.
That’s definitely something I’ll take into consideration.. I’m trying to focus on the responses mainly, and possibly introducing some on scene time but also balancing with not making the videos too long and also being careful with how much of the scene and patient property I post. Thanks for the feedback.
@@NoFloFireI don’t obviously run in trucks but what I do with my videos, if you were to look at my playlists, have response videos and on scene, so you could maybe for your case break each clip up into response and on scene for those audiences who want to see the respective clips and then post a full video to show the whole thing for those like me who want to see all of it.
Personally I think by the time this guy got there he's a little late for the party I wouldn't have bothered air packing up because I would figure everybody else has already taken care of what needed to be done. I'm surprised somebody didn't have him disregard the call and go back to station as far away as he was unless this was a mutual aid response and they were calling for backup.
So you saying that the patient has died from thier injuries at the hospital or what does succumbed mean?
The person passed at the hospital
Wonder why?
@@williammurray8060 what are you trying to say? 🤷🏻♂️
One man truck?
that's what it looks like... I find that way more concerning than the long-ish drive.
Dang go a cross the state for this fire
You gotta do what you gotta do!
Great video. 13 minutes of driving and a minute and a half of basically nothing.
OK Here's a thought. You don't need a headline that says "excitement" like rescue etc. when the video about to watched is 11:30 of firetruck driving. You got on scene after the victim was rescued and thank goodness you didn't show him. But if you're trying to create content quit the drive time and get to the point. Trying for you tube clicks is not a good idea as most people who watched this won't watch anything of yours again. I know you said third due. So in truth the first due video is the one that had the story you were trying to post. Thanks for being a good fireman but try to think about the content.
Thanks for the feedback. I agree to a certain extent with what you’re saying however the main purpose of my page is the response TO the incidents.. due to patient privacy, department SOPs and personal ethics I try to limit how much of the actual scenes I show.. we’re a busy area and I have a LOT of videos I’m working on eventually I’ll have more well rounded content.. but at the end of the day, the title is exactly as it states. The notes in the video and the description states exactly what was happening. There WAS a rescue made that was heard on the radio and I WAS the third due engine. These are the realities of what it’s like when you just can’t get there fast enough.
Wouldn’t it be better for the cops to pull in the yard and give fire and medical vehicles room.
You’re right. And sometimes they do.. But LEO are also more conscious about pulling onto people’s property than I was in this case.
Yup we did some of that many times vfdept
wow! 14 minutes in and there's still talk of a victim. Gotta love them low Florida taxes. Tell 'ol Ron to get it in gear. Give me New York any day!
Having FDNYs staffing would be a blessing. Unfortunately low retention is a nationwide issue.
The point I was trying to make was the relationship between low taxation and diminished services. But since you bring up the retention issue, which is, unfortunately, a by-product of the increased pressure on personal time in today's society, coupled with greatly increased toxic exposure in today's fire scenarios. I live 400 miles from NYC, and could not even dream of their resource level in my career as a professional (IAFF L-191), but the solution to manpower issues, in part, is to fund the position, a function of taxation, a dirty word in some states. BTW, the prod was to 'ol Rick Santorum, not whoever Rod was, my bad. You are also right that nobody fights fire like FDNY, its totally nuts.
I live in rural ny… it’s worse here….we all make choices….. maybe if the state workers didn’t have such a pathetic racket with cradle to grave benefits after 20 years thanks to people like me working for 50 years well into my 70’s… and still paying insane state taxes to keep up the criminal system
Great video if you enjoy watching a fire truck drive 20 miles down a rural highway with his sirens on.
for some its therapeutic
well... I do
🚒👨🚒❤👍
Why in the world would you show one of these videos. Show a 8 minute video of you driving to fire. I've been a fireman for 15 years I can't understand. Everyone knows we drive the fire trucks to the scene they get that part of it. It is stupid and ruins it
Some people are into this side of it.. why do you think fire buffs are so popular? It’s like that but from an inside the cab perspective.
Because the most important element of firefighting is communication? It's a great display of what good comms provides. Firefighters always over-look good, valuable communication and just assume "tactics" is what's going to stop a fire. No, providing Intel, deciding to trigger another alarm, advising responding units what they see, etc. I've seen departments that provide no information. So when other responders get there, they find out its a working fire with victims and we are now caught flat-footed, attempting to catchup.
It’s not stupid, we like it!
I’m sure that was closer fire departments all the little towns a drive-through
This is rural firefighting. First due truck had an 8 minute response time. Fire was contained to a bedroom and a hallway. Thanks for the feedback.
To much driving an nothing of the actual fire. Another beaste of time
We all know it’s worthless to send a firetruck to a fire that is 10 or 12 minutes away. There will be nothing left when you get there.
Welcome to rural America. This pales in comparison to some places but we do relatively well for what we have. As the title states I was not first due.
That is simply not true. It could be a ventilation-limited fire, there could be viable victims in the structure, there could be exposures in need of protection, etc. and yes, this is the reality of rural/volunteer departments.
@@NoFloFirepeople keep being mean to me and what should I do
@@ShariahThomasBlock ‘em. No one needs that kind of crap in their life…
Ignore those people
Too long for response time even with mutual aid and lack man power and funding
Way to far away
Seven minute you are too late. Had to be a department closer.
i just lost 14 minutes of my life
There IS a title, description and a pinned comment you could have read.
Womp womp
Taking them forever to get there no wonder there’s nothing left when I get there
this video blows
Thanks for the feedback
So do you